Chapter 187: Crisis Under Ice and Snow
At one o'clock in the afternoon, we finally arrived at the Manushut crater, and more than four hours had passed. When we stepped on the snow on the summit of Manushut and looked at the scene in front of us, although we were prepared to a certain extent, we were still amazed by the spectacular sight in front of us. In front of us is an irregular sinkhole several kilometers in diameter, and the bottom of the sinkhole is also covered with snow, which looks like a huge jade basin from a distance. This is a far cry from the crater we imagined with hot magma tumbling. We felt the chill of an ancient downright glacier, not the scorching heat of the underground magma!
"It's supposed to be called a 'snow mountain pass,' not a crater. Heng Qida sighed.
Of course, doubts are doubts, each of us is actually aware of what is hidden under this ice and snow, and the current tranquility and silence are only a kind of appearance, once the energy from the depths of the earth reaches the surface along the cracks in the lithosphere, it will be an earth-shattering eruption, and if we can't evacuate in time, the hot boiling lava will completely bury us!
"Everyone, move quickly, we must get out of here before the eruption!" I said to the crowd with a solemn face.
The area inside the crater is so huge that it is estimated to hold a town with a population of 40,000 to 50,000! It is a small place to call it a sinkhole, but it should be called a basin. We walked slowly down the edge of the basin looking for a gentle slope. This process is naturally careful and careful, a little more cautious than when going up the mountain. As the saying goes, it's easier to go up than to down, and it's even more difficult to travel on such snow.
It is better to simply slide down. Xie Ke, Huang Ranran, Chen Traitor and others also agreed with his opinion, but I voted otherwise. I sneered, "Slide down? You don't even look at what kind of place this is? It's full of volcanic rocks, it's full of potholes, it's not flat at all, there's no skiing conditions at all, if we slide down like this, won't we be looking for death?"
"Brother Yang is right, the terrain here is not suitable for skiing, let's go slowly. Fu Ying also agreed with me.
As when we went up the mountain, we still climbed the snow in a professional way, with everyone several meters apart, with safety ropes tied around their waists, and a hook to hold the body in our hands and a metal pole to probe the depth of the snow, which also served to hold the body in place. We also wear professional hiking boots on our feet, with nails on the soles of which are big enough to catch the snow and ice (unlike fake snow boots on the market).
Unlike professional mountaineering teams, after all, it is only more than 3,000 meters above sea level, and it cannot be regarded as a real plateau and high mountain, so we don't have such bulky mountaineering suits and oxygen tanks. So let's say we're completely light. This is also dictated by the nature of the operation.
Despite our caution and caution, slipping in the snow is almost inevitable. Huang and Chen are naturally experts in foreign appearance, but they are a few girls who walk better than both of them.
Fu Ying and Heng Qi and I were still at the front of the queue, serving as pioneers, and the rest of the people followed us.
When we walked down more than 300 meters and were about to reach the bottom of the basin, Fu Ying suddenly looked at me uneasily and said, "Brother Yang, I feel that something is wrong. ”
Hearing her words, I paused for a moment, paused, and said, "What's wrong?"
"There's something around here. Fu Ying took a light breath and said.
"What? there's something around here, what's it?" all the people shook uneasily, and all eyes searched nervously to find the thing.
But there is nothing unusual in front of us except for the white snow and ice.
"Look, what's that?" Heng Qi suddenly exclaimed, pointing with his hand to a certain place in front of him.
We followed his finger and saw a huge bulge like a small hill in the snow more than 20 meters in front of us. The bulge crept at the bottom of the basin, winding and coiling like the shape of a giant python. However, the length of the object was forty or fifty meters, and the diameter seemed to reach two or three meters, and the weight was estimated to be several tons! Where in the world is there such a large python?
Only prehistoric creatures, such as dinosaurs, would have had such a large size!
"Probably dinosaur fossils. I nodded.
"Yes, probably a dinosaur fossil. Xie Ke also agreed.
"It's not a fossil, it's a living creature!" but Fu Ying denied my opinion.
"What? is it a living creature?" several girls were so frightened that they lost their faces, and Huang Ranran and Chen Traitor even stumbled under their feet, and almost rolled down the slope.
"Is it a living creature?" Hengqi and I were also surprised.
"Yes, but it's dormant right now. Fu Ying said.
"And when will it wake up, wake up?" Huang asked with a stammer.
"I can't say exactly. Fu Ying shook her head and said.
"Is it dangerous to us?" I said as I looked at Fu Ying with a solemn expression. I know that the sudden appearance of such a big guy here is definitely not an accident.
"Yes - we'd better not alarm it. Fu Ying's expression was also very solemn, and at the same time, there was a certain feeling of palpitations. Even she has this feeling, which shows that it is definitely not a good thing for this guy to appear here!
But how the hell did this guy end up here? How long has it been here? Why is it here?
"Do you remember how I felt last night?" Fu Ying said, looking at me.
"What? Could it be that this is what made you feel uneasy last night?" my heart jumped.
"Not bad—but it should have been alive when it appeared here last night, maybe something unexpected caused it to freeze here. I don't know what the accident was, but I can only speculate that the sudden and sharp drop in temperature may have caused it. Fu Ying stared at the bulging snowdrift.
"So it only appeared here last night, and it wasn't here before that?" asked Heng Qi.
"Not bad. Fu Ying nodded.
"I see, our operation this time is still embellished, they put this evil here, specially waiting for us, but unfortunately people are not as good as heaven, they never thought that the weather changes of nature trumped the arrangement of manpower, and a cooling made their wishful thinking come to naught!" I smiled optimistically.
"Do you think it's really nature's weather changes?" Fu Ying shook her head, denying my opinion.
"Could it be ......" I remembered what I had encountered in the past when I had experienced danger, could it be that it was this mysterious figure who had secretly helped us? I was really curious about this character, who was he, and why did he help us?
"Then how did this big guy come about?" Huang Ranran tilted his head, still wondering how the big guy came to be.
"Portal. Fu Ying only said two words.
"Portal?" Huang ran with a crooked nose and squinted eyes, still in reverie. Unexpectedly, his feet slipped, and suddenly the whole person got on the "dirt plane" and rushed straight forward, and before we could come to our senses, he had already hit the snowdrift so hard that the snow foam splashed like a ball of cotton, and at the same time there was a huge impact echoing in our ears.
"Huang Run, you will die!" Heng Qi and Xie Ke both screamed in horror.
"Huang Ranran, do you want to kill us all here!" Liu Ting and Jiang Rulan were also angry and scolded loudly.
"I simply ended up with him, lest he repeatedly fail enough and fail!" Chen Han also roared like a bull, grabbed the metal rod in his hand and was about to rush towards Huang Ran, probably wanting to hit him in the head.
"Traitor Chen, what are you doing?" Of course I stopped his stupid behavior, no matter how bad Huang Ran ran was, it was not to the point where he would be killed immediately.
"I'll take a look. Fu Ying frowned slightly, took out the anomalous biological detector, walked to the snowdrift, and probed the movement under the snowdrift. After a moment's probing, she turned her head and looked at me and said, "It's okay, it won't wake up for a while." ”
Bypassing this terrifying snowdrift, we walked forward another two or three hundred meters, and the altitude was gradually decreasing, at this time we were about 150 meters vertical to the crater, and the peaks around the crater towered above our heads like giants, and it looked a little terrifying. But the most disturbing thing for us is the big guy buried in the snow. We can only pray that it better sleep and not wake up when we leave here. Of course it's just wishful thinking on our part, and who knows when that guy will wake up?
"It's down here. Fu Ying suddenly stopped and looked at her feet.
The position we were in was actually a relatively gentle plateau, and under the snow, it looked the same everywhere, not unlike any other place. But I believe Fu Ying's feeling, since she said that she is here, then it must be here.
"Do you want to drill and dig for soil? We don't seem to have brought Luoyang shovels this time?" Heng Qi said scratching his granite head.
"Don't bother—you all stand up. Fu Ying said.